rwbyOS X: Even the Thread Gets a Costume Change!

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... I guess you could interpret Nora's outfit that way though it kinda feels like that would come out of nowhere. Though... in not exactly the same vein but close...

Spoiler: Volume 7 Episode 3

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Qrow and Alpha, the leader guy of that ASop team, have an... odd chemistry together... I wouldn't be surprised if they appear in allot of discussions and fanfics in the very near future. They probably already have, I haven't gone looking.

Also this episode had the absolute least possible subtle flirting between Yang and Blake that has ever appeared in the show previously. Yang really likes that new haircut. It's kinda funny because elsewhere in discussions of the first episode of the season I wanted to just scream into the void over a few people whining about the bumblebee ship. You know... when the two characters barely even so much as looked at one another or spoke a word to one another and were physically about as far away from one another as could even be possible considering much of the episode took place withing a flying tin can with the interior space the size of my bedroom or a single room clinic.

And since I'm trash and have already discussed all this shipping junk... Poor Nora... She's trying so hard to flirt with Lie Ren today. And he's giving her nothing. I mean that's just sorta par for the course with him but Nora looks so dejected this time.

If we must discuss shipping junk, lets bring Winter in this.

Spoiler: Shipping Season 3 to Season 7 Episode 3, including S7E3 spoilers

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Okay let's make the drunk noxious uncle into shippable bate. Instead of being eww 🤢😨 let's try to ship Qrow with someone.

First you need to discuss whether Qrow is straight, bi, gay, or some other label. Let's for the sake of argument say Qrow is bi, gay, pan, or some other label. Why would you ship Qrow with Clover Ebi the leader of Ace-Ops? Qrow needs a friend and so far Qrow and Clover have friendship energy where Qrow feels understood for someone can finally relate to him with a quirk they can't control, is trying to empathize with him, and actually may get what Qrow is going through. Clover Ebi understands the pain of being all on your own and how that is not healthy. The fable of aesop where Clover comes from is "A Fisherman's Good Luck" in this fable the Fisherman knows loss, knows what it is to not get your desires, and how the world can be against you. Yet the moral of the fable is there can be a reversal of fortune [aka good luck] and thus you must still have hope and perseverance for if you do not show up then the good luck is not able to happen.

Aka the optimistic / hopeful vs the cynic / skeptic of seeing the same reality. They both see the same thing, but they are the counterpoint of each other viewpoint. Aka see the difference between Wyatt from Westworld and Dolores from Westworld in their "core programming." As Dolores is introduced in the pilot she quotes.

Some people choose to see the ugliness in this world.
The disarray.
I choose to see the beauty.
To believe there is an order to our days, a purpose.

So if not Clover with who do you ship Qrow with, who do you ship him with? Why Ironwood of course! They have Ratigan and Basil energy of the bitter exes who felt misunderstood by their past relationship even though they still love each other.

We see this based of how Qrow picked a fight with Ironwood's new righthand lady Winter. Some people see this as Ironwood and Winter shipping or Winter and Qrow shipping but let me propose that Qrow was picking a fight with Winter for she is the "other woman" that has replaced him as a member of Ironwood's affections. This is why Qrow calls out specialist in particular. Winter is reliable in ways Qrow is not due Qrow's bad luck aura. It is like a further insight this prim and proper lady who has everything down to a science with her technique.

Qrow feels betrayed not just for Ozpin's sake but also his own sake. Communication metaphors, why don't you call me metaphors, that is the phone send button!



Now fast forward to Season 7 Episode 2. Ironwood is so happy to see his ex and feels the need to hug him and it is like he lost family and now found out his loved ones he still cares for are still alive. This is a man in grief only to realize the person he loved even if they are his ex is there and can be a new support system. This is a man who waited till the rest of the party was gone and once it was just him and Qrow he was intimate with the hug and he is trying to repair relations.



I am not saying Qrow and Ironwood is going to be a thing. Quite the opposite. Shipping Energy exist for you can "make the case" for it, just like you can make the case for dozens of different things from the same data, the same visual and aural story. If Qrow is Bi / Gay / Other we have far more evidence that his crush energy is Ironwood and not the new guy.

Then again we only have what 3 minutes or so with new guy having 1 on 1 time with Qrow so you can still develop the possibility, but I am saying we already have plenty of shipping fodder for Qrow, the icky drunk uncle. Now I did not always find Qrow to be pure icky it is fine to be a drunk if you are competent in a fictional narrative story. Well Qrow is not competent, he is talented, but he screws up in so many ways that he is sloppy. He is a get out of jail free card for some problems, while Qrow specifically creates many of the problems that team RWBY and team RNJR experience.

Sidenote do we have a new team name for RWBY and RNJR now that Oscar is part of the team? ORNJ for Orange? Sigh that is icky.

There's a chance that after I publish my book (Soon tm) I'll have some free time to devote to watching the show, I just fell behind and feel like I've been happier not watching it so I'm unsure if I wanted to continue doing so. I'll think about it.

Sad to see you go, but if you do not have enough time then do not watch RWBY. Maybe it will be a better time sink later, but right now with so many other good stories out there it is not something you should waste the 4 to 6 hours it will take and that is assuming you watch it all at once for a volume and do not watch individually and commenting after each episode.